mitigated
Use the adjective mitigated to describe something that's been made less serious. If your friend gets a serious case of food poisoning, news of her mitigated symptoms will make you feel relieved.
When something has lessened in intensity or seriousness, you can call it mitigated. If a judge decides on a mitigated sentence for your brother the car thief, it means he's not in quite as much trouble as he might have been, and you could say that hosting movie night at your house has mitigated, or reduced, the money you spend at the theater. The Latin root word, mitigatus, means make mild or gentle.
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made less severe or intense“he gladly accepted the mitigated penalty”synonyms:lesseneddecreased in severity; made less harshantonyms:unmitigatednot diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifierarrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utterwithout qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiersbodaciousincorrigible
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Mr. Earnshaw adopts the orphan Heathcliff and takes him to live at his home Wuthering Heights, setting in motion a chain of events that will haunt the Earnshaw family for generations. Here are our lists for the novel: Chapters 1–5, Chapters 6–9, Chapters 10–14, Chapters 15–20, Chapters 21–26, Chapters 27–30, Chapters 31–34
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A young prince and a poor commoner look almost exactly alike, so they decide to switch places to discover how the other lives. Read the full text here.